All Star Video Interview

[brendanrfoley]

Up at Gamespot, there is the video interview for ASB 2004.

Damn, this game looks much better than I anticipated...

Let's just leave it at that .

[BernieWilliams51]

2 things:

1. There's a streaming video option but the interview is locked

2. Its over 87 MB and I have 56k .

I'm not gonna subscribe just to see this either

[BernieWilliams51]

By the way, what was said in the video? Anything different from the Operation Sports interview?

[bibby123]

who ever sees the interveiw maybe u could share it with us is it free to subscribe

[BernieWilliams51]

I think its $4.95 monthly to subscribe to GameSpot Complete and like $29.95 for a full year.

[Trax]

Anything newsworthy from the interview?

[Peter_OS]

Nothing noteworthy that we didn't already cover from the interview and other previews. Some extra footage of the game not seen before.

Basicallly this is what they said:

- ASB 2004 has taken it back to old school, old school players, a few teams from the negro league.

- Scenario mode. Scenarios are taken from Last year's 2002 season.

- All star throw back mode. National League vs American League. Pretty cool. Showed a clip in the video interview. I guess what this is, is you pick the all stars you want represented in either the National League or American League from a pool of players and the computer then picks the players for the opponent. (I'm guessing this will include players from the past and present. So you can have Ruth and Bonds say on the say team. )

- New franchise mode: Start an expansion team. You can pick from ficticious stadiums in this mode.

- On field changes. Change batting cursor. You can change it to a 2d cursor or No cursor at all, or keep it in 3d. Batting cursor is customizable.

- AI controlled players. More intelligent decisions. Fielding and batting.

- Overall look hasn't change dramaticlally. Sharper look to it. More detail on the players.

- More and a variety of animations added. Oufielders catching the ball.

- Stadiums look better this year. Future stadiums as well. Tour these stadiums.

- First game to have spanish pbp.

[Diablo25]

Man, like Brendan said, this game has impressed me way more than I anticipated. The video preview is nice. Future stadiums too! I hope the Phils new stadium is there. Tha main thing I liked in the video was pitch speeds. They actually looked reasonable. I hated the previous two versions because tracking the ball was near impossible. From watching the video its looks like you may be able to work some walks. I hate HR cut scenes so I hope you can turn them off. Several options with the batting cursor too. You can go with the 3D cursor, no cursor or just a regular 2D cursor (no tilting). If it plays nice its gonna be tough to beat.